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Dr. Karen Masters, Resident Director, has a B.S. from the University of Michigan, an M.S. from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University.She has lived in Monteverde for over 20 years and has been teaching at the CIEE Study Center in Monteverde since 1997.She currently studies the effects of climate change on epiphytic orchids in Monteverde and has published papers on a host of conservation-related research.

Dr. Karen Masters, Resident Director, has a B.S. from the University of Michigan, an M.S. from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University.She has lived in Monteverde for over 20 years and has been teaching at the CIEE Study Center in Monteverde since 1997.She currently studies the effects of climate change on epiphytic orchids in Monteverde and has published papers on a host of conservation-related research.

Karen Masters, a professor at the CIEE Study Center in Monteverde, Costa Rica, is one of ten authors of a paper featured in this week's Nature Magazine on the disappearance of frog species throughout Central and South America.The article links the disappearance to a fungal disease and climate change.Karen discussed the findings on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and Nightline this week.